TELEVISION COLUMNISTS SCORE PROGRAM VALUES

Dwight Newton, San Francisco Examiner TV columnist, called "The Rejected" one of the four outstanding

and in great depth. And he listed KQED's address as the place where the public could order copies of the transcript for a dollar.

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In San Francisco Chronicle, TerTV programs which appeared on a rence O'Flaherty gave even more single night. He wrote that KQED space. His comment is reproduced handled the subject soberly, calmly below:

Something for the Boys

THE TWO BIGGEST SHOWS of the month were about girls and boys-not together, but separately.

The girl show was the Miss America Pageant, the tra ditional romp through Atlantic City in hoopskirts and swimsuits. The boy show was "The Rejected," a documentary look at homosexuality produced for nationwide showing by KQED, our educational station. Both displays were digni fied and very much a part of the contemporary scene. As such they are worth recounting here.

In "The Rejected," KQED was courageous to tackle what is perhaps the most taboo subject of all-homosex, uality, the permanent underground. A letter from Stanley Mosk, the Attorney General of California, opened the show and set the tone for the discussion.

"We might just as well refuse to discuss alcoholism or narcotics addiction, as to refuse to discuss this subject. It cannot be swept under the rug. It will not go away by itself. There is need to cast light into an area in which the shadows have long been deep."

DISTINGUISHED group of leaders and opinion-makers from all aspects of society were heard from, including Dr. Margaret Meade, Rabbi Alvin Fine, attorney Morris Lowenthal, The Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, Episcopal Bishop of California, and District Attorney Thomas Lynch of San Franciseo. Most agreed that adult homosexuality should not be a crime.

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Some of the documented comments must have surprised most viewers: "Thirty-seven per cent of all American males have had at least one homosexual experience after adolescence." "Laws aimed at controlling homosexual conduct are frequently self-contradictory, totally irrational and have proved to be unenforceable." isn't found only in big cities, but everywhere, in every small community."..."75 per cent of the males in California with early infectious syphilis have acquired it from other males." "The only places in Europe where ordinary homosexuality is a crime is Communist Russia, West Ger many and Great Britain." ... "Plenty of male homosexuals are broad shouldered, strong and the epitome of mascu linity."

Rabbi Fine: "It is my interpretation of Judaism that homosexual practice is still held to be immoral, but moral problem that it is, we should regard and treat it as a psy: chological illness rather than as a crime."

Bishop Pike: "A homosexual is like anyone else with an illness and should be cared for as such, with love and concern and interest; not casting them aside, not labelling them as evil . .

Harold Call, president of the Mattachine Society which seeks to educate the public on the problem: "By and large, if these laws were changed, we might find that the homosexual is no different from anyone else except perhaps in his choice of an object of his love.” MATTACHINE A HIGH POINT VARIETY REVIEWER CLAIMS

While newspapers placed heavy emphasis upon the expert comment made by such better known personalities as Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Psychiatrist Karl Bowman and Attorneys

Morris Lowenthal and Al Bendich, Variety in New York on Sept. 13 declared that the "homosexual viewpoint" as presented by Mattachine and the VD discussion by Dr. Erwin Braff of the San Francisco Health Clinic, were program high spots. Here is the complete review:

Television Reviews

VARIETY

THE REJECTED With Margaret Mead, Dr. Karl M. Bowman, Dr. Erwin Braff, Bishop James A. Pike, Rabbi Alvin Fine, Morris Lowenthal, J. Albert Hutchinson, Thomas Lynch, Al Bendich, Harold L. Call, Donald S. Lucas, Les Fisher. Writer: John W. Reavis Jr.

Director: Richard Christian Producers: John W. Reavis Jr., Irving Saraf.

60 Mins., Mon. (11), 9:30 p.m. KQED, San Francisco (vidtape)

"The Rejected" is a deep-probIng documentary of a highly taboo theme, homosexuality.

Produced by KQED for the National Educational Television Net-